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PATAGONICAS XXIII (2 Part): New Year

Thursday 1-January-2009

Rio Glacier - Lake Risopatrón, somewhere in the middle of the lake. Dist

Day 53 kms, 737 kms Total Distance, Vmeas. 11.0, Temp Rise 609 meters

31med day. , 42 max, 22 min. Temp night 9 med, 12 max, 9 min.

DINNER: What you see is water in the pan with powder. They call it soup, but soup my mother called to see anything but the resemblance was to throw a lot of imagination.

This rich, it's "you can eat" in my case there is a differential attribute, if it jumps off the plate digest. The best of the water with powders is that after I sleep like a log ...

absence of a good red!

The stove is the same as wearing a Basque I talked about in the previous post. Gasoline consumed, and one almost too hot, but solves the problem of finding gas.

CAMPING: This is the deposit of boulders I spoke to in the previous post. On the right, in the middle of a clearing, you see the material they bivouacked, and a little more to the right bike. On the left, huge bath with crystal clear waters.

The morning bath for stretches, was what you would expect to see the photo. Since today is January 1 ...

year promises to release!

What is unseen is "sticks" out among the treetops, it seems that here the tragedy of the Chilean forest took a break.

HEARING OF CAMPING:

FJORD, Ó Ventisquero:

Glacier fjord started here. Nearby was a house he rented canoes, but were not approached me, had gone sailing.

I'd like to give me a "little walk" kayak on the fjord ...

although I would have liked me more than a walk!

As always in Patagonia, a canoe and do not agree yo! Hanging Glacier

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was worth, but in the case of Patagonia, this differential is not an attribute.

I got there at noon, did my calculations and to get closer to the viewpoint of the glacier along a path to walk, you might spend the entire day, but everything would come to a time that would not have a good light to take pictures ... I decided

follow route!

The route, of course gravel

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Ventisquero AND VOLCANO Mentolat: The road stretched along the banks of the fjord to Puyuhuapi for about 13 Kms The volcano is about 50 km

This section reminded me one I did for the South of Turkey. I put a link here if you want to "investigate" (LINK TO SEE AND READ)

Ludwig HOUSE: The right house was a shelter, 15,000 Chileans expensive, a small fortune, and yet I thought seriously stay the. At the end I did, I ate something at a bar and went on road ...

I saved some money, and I took a few kms more per day! At 19:30 we were leaving the bike and I Puyuhuapi.

cost me find where to fill up the tank of the bike. Puyuhuapi I arrived on holiday, it is normal, it was New Year ... That rare

Christmas in shirt sleeves and taking the sun!

These houses were of German settlers came here in the interwar period. Were devoted to farming and agribusiness. Came attracted by the stories of Hans Steffen, one of the first explorers of the Chilean Patagonia.

Hans Steffen, German and more signs, and historidor and geographer by training, and state workers for money, toured this territory in the late nineteenth century, commissioned by the Chilean government. Even though these territories Trapananda and called on him time I narrate, belonged to Chile, were totally unknown to the government at that time.

After exhausting the first appeal "natural" Trapananda, this area lost all interest for the settlers and fell into oblivion. The first "resources" that were sold were the Chono, and Caucahue in the coastal zone, for which I am traveling, and tehuelches to east of the Andes.

guess that by now the reader will know that this first action was human flesh, human flesh for slavery. Although we were not alone, these facts build the history of Spain.

note is very, very much The difference with the Patagonian home more often. View the picture and also when was the construction, start to lose weight the theory of lack of materials, and insulation in building houses most of Patagonia, Chile. For me it's just a cultural issue

While the house for shelter ...

"for aesthetics?